The Best Episodes Written By Charles Beaumont

The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Charles Beaumont

In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Charles Beaumont

After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A scientist tries to correct his imperfections by building a mechanical likeness of himself, which includes of all the finer qualities he is lacking.

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

Director: Anton Leader

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him is a dream: one that he can't wake up from. He claims that every time he is executed, he fails to wake up and must relive the whole thing again. His attorney is originally skeptical, but Grant knows all of the "lines" and can predict things that will happen miles away. His attorney tries to get a stay of execution, but is just too late: Grant is "executed" and wakes up at his trial once more. The players have changed roles, but otherwise everything is the same as he must relive the same events over...and over...and over.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Charles Beaumont

In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora collapses and falls into a paralyzed, yet conscious, state. She is bedridden and worried that her husband will try to kill her. She is also unable to speak and cannot tell anyone about her dangerous husband. When her nurse Jean Dekker allows her husband to adminster her medicine, she grows fearful that he will try to poison her. Fortunately, the nurse figures out a way to communicate with Nora. Nora squeezes her hand in response to yes or no questions. Jean discovers the truth about Ralph, but when Ralph finds out he tries to kill both Nora and Jean . Fortunately, Nora comes out of her paralysis in time to scream. She alerts her second son who manages to subdue Ralph before he can kill again.

Director: Robert Douglas

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A wily old man, hired by a bankrupt newspaper editor, has the knack of predicting headline stories and claims to be the Devil.

Director: Ralph Senensky

Writer: Charles Beaumont

The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A quarrelsome young couple find themselves taking a trip on the Lady Anne, an old passenger liner that is transporting a group of equally old passengers.

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

Director: William Claxton

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Charles Beaumont